I am working on a manuscript about Mary Elizabeth Fricke (1846-1895). She is the subject of a century-old story from the South Fork of Long Island, regarding the suspicious death of her first husband, Captain Andrew Jennings of Bridgehampton, as well as the deaths of the captain's first wife, elder daughter, and granddaughter. It is said that she attempted to poison her second husband, John L. Cook of Bridgehampton, as well, but this attempt was thwarted by Cook himself, and she died from an overdose of arsenic.

I am working on a manuscript about Mary Elizabeth Fricke (1846-1895). She is the subject of a century-old story from the South Fork of Long Island, regarding the suspicious death of her first husband, Captain Andrew Jennings of Bridgehampton, as well as the deaths of the captain's first wife, elder daughter, and granddaughter. It is said that she attempted to poison her second husband, John L. Cook of Bridgehampton, as well, but this attempt was thwarted by Cook himself, and she died from an overdose of arsenic.